AU Payroll - Ability to apply work patterns to part time employees
Suggest the ability to apply work patterns to part time employees. For example, we have a part time employee who works 7 hours on Mon, 6 hours on Tues and 6 hours on Wed.
At the moment, if a Public Holiday falls on a Monday, it does not correctly work out hours worked.
The same happens if Annual Leave is taken; incorrect hours are calculated which affects AL accruals.
Hours worked have to be calculated and added manually.
Lesley Webster
shared this idea
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Tracy Newfield
commented
Such a basic feature. Needed for EVERY part time employee to calculate leave and public holiday pay correctly. Needed urgently.
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Michelle Hill
commented
Thanks @Tara Broderick. I'm the founder of a startup, we can't afford 2 systems, As soon as I have time, I'll look into a system with better payroll function (that accommodates pay pattern).
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Chelsea Darr
commented
This would be a really helpful feature. Half of our staff are part time and so much of time goes into ensuring that their leave and public holiday hours are calculated correct because Xero averages out the hours rather than having the correct hours calculated. Christmas shutdown periods are always time consuming for this reason. Every leave application needs to be corrected and then the total hours need to be corrected again on the pay run. This feature would be a real time saver!
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Alison Warry
commented
Come on Xero - this should be a standard setting
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Tara Broderick
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@ Michelle Hill - I use an external platform for our timesheets. The Xero timesheets are terrible.
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Michelle Hill
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Please urgently add for AU. Can't believe this simple function is not available. Staff has no trust in payroll, I will need to change to another accounting software.
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Geoff Schmidt
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It's the inability to calculate annual leave correctly that really annoys me. Every leave request has to be corrected before it can be approved.
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lindsay mollison
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do what they did in NZ please
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lindsay mollison
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hi guys
you emailed me advice that this had been fixed - but it seems only for NZ. if you can do it there can you PLEASE fix it for us in Australia.
I've written to you about it before, and filled in feed back forms about it. It is critical and obviously something that can be easily sorted if it has been implemented elsewhere . Apparently KELLY MUNRO fixed it.
See attached post
....delivered · Kelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded
· Aug 22, 2024
Hi everyone, you can now create new working patterns for employees which allow you to add in the specific days and hours they are contracted to work!This improves the default hours used in calculations around public holidays, leave requests, the first pay, the last pay and when working patterns change during the pay period. Thanks again for all your feedback on this here.
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Tropical Waste
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Don't even get me started on Payroll even in classic invoicing. So rigid and inflexible, I've never used a payroll that's so time consuming and ridiculous. Does not cater for shift changes or staff who swap swings, it's a major drama involving SO MUCH prep work of changing each employees setup just to start the pay run. and if you forget just one you have delete the entire run and start again instead of just amending that one empolyees payslip. I could go on as my list of pet hates for Xero's Payroll is long, but I have to think of my Blood Pressure and run a Business. Sometimes I just ring the Accountant and tell to fix it because they forced us onto this program in the first place........
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Jen Thomson
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This would be a real time saver; Xero's assumption of how hours should be spread out costs me productivity across so many staff!